The man seen arguing with Sean Bell outside a Queens strip club moments before undercover cops fired 50 shots at Bell said yesterday he did not hear anyone threaten to get a gun – contradicting previous remarks he made about that night.

Fabio Coicou admitted he was talking with Bell and his friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, in front of the club Kalua while he waited for his stripper girlfriend to get off work.

Coicou was grilled by lawyers for the three accused detectives, forcing the prosecution witness to defend himself from statements he made last year before a grand jury.

The defense contends undercover cops witnessed a fight between Coicou, 30, and Bell, 23, after the strip joint in Jamaica, site of Bell’s bachelor party, closed at 4 a.m.

The defense has also said detectives shot Bell after he rammed his car into an unmarked police van after Isnora overheard one of Bell’s friends say he was going to get a gun. Police never recovered a weapon.

Cops were conducting an undercover sting operation at the club during the predawn hours of Nov. 25, 2006. Bell was to be married later that day.

Bell responded, “Alcohol is not getting control of me,” Coicou recalled.

The spat outside the club escalated to the point where Coicou said he and Bell were “chest to chest.” The fight ended when Coicou told Bell he was from Far Rockaway, the same neighborhood where Guzman lived.

Coicou said he did not hear the shooting because he had gotten into his SUV and had the windows closed and music playing loudly.